Reporter Michael Gordon uncovers intrigue in Damascus, where the Allies and Nazis struggle for control of Arab sympathies.Reporter Michael Gordon uncovers intrigue in Damascus, where the Allies and Nazis struggle for control of Arab sympathies.Reporter Michael Gordon uncovers intrigue in Damascus, where the Allies and Nazis struggle for control of Arab sympathies.
André Charlot
- Andre Leroux
- (as Andre Charlot)
Abdullah Abbas
- Arab Guard
- (uncredited)
Rafael Alcayde
- Hotel Clerk
- (uncredited)
Michael Ansara
- Hamid
- (uncredited)
Frank Arnold
- French Gendarme
- (uncredited)
Eric Berge
- Gendarme
- (uncredited)
Maurice Brierre
- Drunken Customer
- (uncredited)
Buster Brodie
- Bald-Headed Man
- (uncredited)
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- TriviaDesert footage was shot by Merian C. Cooper and Ernest B. Schoedsack in 1937 for an unmade film on the life of Lawrence of Arabia..
- GoofsWhen Danesco (Gene Lockhart) is taken into the hotel owner's office, the two men who brought him there stand next to him on either side. Then when the owner had them frisk Danesco for cheating, the two men approach him from several steps away from behind.
- Quotes
Matthew Reed: You're a troublemaker, Gordon!
Michael Gordon: That's what Herr Goebbels said about me once. I was deeply flattered.
- ConnectionsReferenced in Inglourious Basterds (2009)
- SoundtracksLa Marseillaise
(1792)
Written by Claude Joseph Rouget de Lisle
Variations in the score when the Free French Cross of Lorraine is shown
Featured review
wartime spy thriller
Action in Arabia opens with an introduction by the narrator, while displaying a boundary map of Africa, europe, and the middle east as of 1944. Starring the dashing George Sanders (from All About Eve) and Gene Lockhart, we go running around Syria looking for those Nazi's during WW II. Also look for H B Warner (who had played the great "Chang" in Lost Horizon, and JC in "King of Kings"). There has to be a lovely lady at the center of these things, and here its Virginia Bruce playing Yvonne Danesco, the wife of a crooked gambler, at the very least. People start getting knocked off, and away we go! Because we're off in a far away land, and chasing spies, its quite exotic, but according to IMDb, its mostly all filmed in LA. Scoping out the cast list, apparently Bud Wiser played "the man"...... actually, the beer WAS first; it has been around since 1883! Directed by Russian turned Frenchman Leonide Moguy, this was only one of the three English speaking films he did between 1936 and 1961. With some arabic ,german, and french language thrown in, a fun war-time adventure.
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- Jul 3, 2008
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- Budget
- $200,000 (estimated)
- Runtime1 hour 15 minutes
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- Aspect ratio
- 1.37 : 1
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